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  • Time to Pick Your Home Handyman

    By Arturo Cuevas - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: ENR, JAH, SWK

    Things that make life handier sure can be a good theme for stock picking, don’t you think? This is especially so now that household growth  in the U.S.appears accelerating and new home construction is rising along with a pick up in activity in the residential resale market.

    Going by this line of thought,  Energizer Holdings (NYSE: ENR) should be a fine candidate. After all, most of the more »

  • These Diversified Industrials Are Dividend Legends

    By Robert Ciura - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: DOV, ITW, SWK

    Companies within the industrial sector don’t have exciting businesses. They aren’t likely to be featured in the financial media as the next hot sector or major growth story. At the same time, they provide necessary functions to our society. They manufacture and distribute real, tangible things that build our very infrastructure and contribute heavily to the economy.

    While no one is likely to be excited by these businesses more »

  • Is This Stock the Perfect GARP Play for 2013?

    By Lee Samaha - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: MAS, SWK, WHR

    There are three positive earnings drivers to look out for with Stanley Black & Decker(NYSE: SWK), and if they all come together in 2013, then this stock has significant upside potential. It is a nice mix of value and growth.The company offers a nice mix of improving end markets, ongoing cost savings from synergies created via acquisition integration, and it has a strategic growth initiative in place in order more »

  • Building a Watch List from Your Garage

    By William Bias - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: GNRC, KMB, SWK, WDFC

    A watch list serves as an important tool in the process of gathering investment ideas and keeping track of them in order to determine their worthiness for your portfolio. You can find great investment ideas simply by walking around in your garage.

    As you walk around your garage you may see a box of Scott shop towels made by personal care conglomerate Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB). In addition, the company also more »

  • The Key Earnings For The Week of April 22

    By Lee Samaha - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: CHKP, CTXS, SWK, VFC, YUM

    It’s another huge week for earnings. In this article I've suggested some of those companies that I find interesting and provide some ideas for further research. It’s also a good time to try and check the underlying trends in the economy versus what individual companies are saying about them.

    Monday

    BE Aerospace and Hexcel are two of the most interesting stocks in the aerospace sector. The latter more »

  • Can These Five Screen Stars Can Light Up Your Portfolio

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: ETP, FSC, NYMT, SWK, RGR

    Screeners are so much fun...more fun than Angry Birds and more profitable. Using the Motley Fool screener (found under the CAPS community tab at www.fool.com) I noodled around for stocks with 2% plus yield, at least 1% insider ownership, P/Es between 5 and 15, and revenue growth of at least 20% for the last three years.

    Eye-popping names

    In the mid-cap and big cap stocks only more »

  • Alcoa's Results and What They Mean for Your Stocks

    By Lee Samaha - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: AA, CMI, GE, SWK

    One of Sherlock Holmes’ greatest pieces of detective work was detecting the importance of the dog that didn’t bark in the ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ and I think investors should follow his lead over Alcoa’s (NYSE: AA) latest results. In other words, the earnings were more important for what they didn’t say about the economy and end markets then what they did.

    Alcoa Remains Positive

    At the more »

  • Outlining This Construction Play's Growth Opportunities

    By Lee Samaha - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: FAST, SWK

    Buying the US housing recovery has been one of the most profitable trades over the last year, but what of Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK)? With 54% of its revenues coming from North America, it is obviously a play on a resumption of residential and commercial construction spending in the region, but is it that simple?

    As you may have guessed by now, my rhetorical questions are leading to the more »

  • Intentional Investing : Can I Actually EARN Something From The Housing Recovery ?

    By Penny Czarra - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: AOS, AAON, ADT, AMWD, APOG, AWI, BECN, BLDR, CSTE, CLGX, EXP, ELLI, FBHS, GNRC, GFF, HW, HD, JHX, LII, LOW, LXU, LL, LEDR, MLM, MAS, MOVE, NCS, NTK, OC, PFIN, PATK, PGTI, PPG, NX, RPM, SHOS, SNA, SWK, TXI, VAL, TTS, USCR, USLM, URI, UFPI, USG, VRSK, VMC, WSO, Z

    I don't like "noise". I try to avoid it whenever / wherever I can.

    Yep , call me what you want, but I'm a "retail investor". I know this to be true because everyone (and I mean Everyone) is always trying to sell me something. This means high decibels and lots and lots of BOLD PRINT.

    "Renovation Nation". "Renters Nation". "Housing Recovery". "The ONE sure, market-beating stock for your Long-Term more »

  • Buy These 3 Building Stocks to Benefit From the Housing Recovery

    By Masam Abbas - February 20, 2013 | Tickers: CSTE, MAS, SWK

    A stronger-than-expected housing recovery in the US has sent bullish signals to the market. The recovery has seen not only rising home sales but also a sharp recovery in house prices. Bears believe that 2012 was the year of the housing recovery and that it has already been factored in the building stocks. However, Credit Suisse estimates home improvement spending to increase 7% in 2013 and 8% in 2014. This more »

  • Evaluating the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

    By Karin Hernandez - February 4, 2013 | Tickers: CAH, EMR, LEG, NUE, SWK

    Over the past year, I (along with many other investors) have recognized the awesome beauty of dividend stocks. Once considered the stodgy old men of the investing world, dividend-paying companies have become young and hip, and very, very attractive.

    One of the most famous lists of high-quality dividend-paying companies is the S&P 500 list of Dividend Aristocrats, defined as large-cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that more »

  • Sustainable Historical Dividends and Low Payout Small Caps (Part I)

    By Anh HOANG - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: NC, SWK, ANDE

    Investors should be interested in companies that have a history of paying dividends. However, the history of paying dividends should go along with decent payout ratios and reasonable prices. Thus, to combine all those criteria together, I created an income stock screener to find small cap businesses with the potential of sustainable dividends. In addition, those businesses should be valued cheaply in the market. The criteria are: (1) small cap more »

  • Stocks with Over 100 Years of Uninterrupted Dividends (Last Part)

    By Anh HOANG - January 4, 2013 | Tickers: BP, CVS, XOM, SWK

    Investors should get excited about businesses that have consistently paid uninterrupted dividends for more than a century. Those businesses have weathered all the ups and downs of many catastrophic events, including World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, Oil Shock, etc. They still survived, prospered, and returned cash to shareholders in the form of dividends. In the two previous articles, I have featured five stocks that have consistently more »

  • 5 Dividend Stocks Growing Dividends Faster than the S&P 500 Index

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - January 2, 2013 | Tickers: XOM, SWK, TGT, VFC, WAG

    Aggregate dividend payouts of the S&P 500 Index constituents have reached a decade high. Totaling $277.4 billion on a trailing-twelve-months basis or $29.92 per share, S&P 500 dividends are growing at an average annual rate of 15.5%, according to FactSet. This is a multi-decade high and almost three times faster than the average annualized dividend growth of the S&P 500 since 1970.

    While many more »

  • Why InvenSense is a MultiBagger in the Making

    By Simon Erickson - November 27, 2012 | Tickers: BBRY, INVN, MSFT, SWK

    If you're investing in small companies, you've got to think BIG.

    You want to find companies that 1) offer great products, 2) to markets with huge potential, and 3) at the right time.  Think Wal-Mart into mass retailing in 1972.  Or then Amazon into internet retailing in 1996.

    There's a company today that is largely flying under-the-radar that I believe has a similar BIG opportunity.   Thus, I more »

  • 15 Quality Stocks That Have Increased Dividends for Over 40 Years

    By Lee Samaha - October 28, 2012 | Tickers: KO, CL, LOW, MSA, SWK

    Dividend investing is certainly back in vogue these days. With the Federal Reserve committed to keeping interest rates low, there has been an increased focus on good old blue chip dividend-paying stocks. I previously discussed 15 stocks that have raised their dividends over the last twenty years in an article linked here, and those that have raised them over thirty years in this article.  Now it’s time to do more »

  • Should You Buy Stanley Black & Decker After Earnings?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 20, 2012 | Tickers: DHR, KMT, MRC, ROLL, SWK

    Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) missed earnings and revenue estimates in its third quarter report released on Oct. 17. While revenue was actually up 6% from the third quarter of 2011, margins shrunk and drove earnings down 26% over the same time frame. This is the same trend that the company has seen so far this year -- a better top line than the same period a year earlier, but lower more »

  • Revised Outlooks for a Trio of 3-Star Stocks

    By Josh Kohn-Lindquist - October 19, 2012 | Tickers: DBD, SWK, GWW

    In the investing world, revised outlooks usually represent a disappointing quarter or a dismal forecast for either the current year or next financial year, at least in comparison to the analysts.  While this can be seen as bad news for current shareholders, it can often represent a good spot for new investors to buy into the company at a lower price and a chance for previous shareholders to lower their more »

  • First Eagle Keeps Selling Blount

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 13, 2012 | Tickers: BLT, DE, HD, LOW, SWK

    First Eagle Investment Management owned 8.8 million shares of Blount International (NYSE: BLT), a forestry, lawn, and garden company currently at a market capitalization of about $660 million, at the beginning of the year. By the end of March the fund, managed by Jean-Marie Eveillard, had cut its stake to 6.1 million shares; this fell further, to 5 million shares, at the end of the second quarter. Find more »

  • Increased Focus on Portfolio Rationalization Makes This Stock an Attractive Buy

    By Ankit Agrawal - September 17, 2012 | Tickers: DHR, HD, SNA, SWK

    Stanley Black & Decker Inc's (NYSE: SWK) growth outlook has been buffered by the realization of cost & revenue synergies from the merger with Black & Decker and accretion from the recently completed Niscayah (Security) acquisition. I am impressed by the company's track record of finding and completing suitable acquisitions to boost long-term sales and earnings growth rates. I'm optimistic that the recently announced Infastech acquisition and the sale of more »

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